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Meeting Agenda NEW EU STRATEGY ON CENTRAL ASIA PLATFORM FOR ENVIRONMENT AND WATER COOPERATION The 9th meeting of the EU-Central Asia Working Group on Environment and Climate Change Steigenberger Wiltcher’s Hotel 71, Avenue Louise 1050 Brussels, Belgium 12-13 February 2020 MEETING AGENDA OBJECTIVES The 9th meeting of the EU-Central Asia Working Group on Environment and Climate Change (WGECC) is the first gathering after the 6th EU-CA High Level Conference on Environment and Water Cooperation held in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in January 2019, whose Summary of the Co-Chairs contains the priority lines to be addressed in the work of the Platform and its Working Group: • Environmental Governance, Circular Economy and Sustainable Consumption and Production, • Climate Change Adaptation and mitigation, • Water Resources Management, • Cross Cutting Issues. In May 2019, the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy issued the Joint Communication on a new EU Strategy on Central Asia entitled “The EU and Central Asia: New Opportunities for a stronger partnership”. Adopted by the Council of the European Union on 17 June 2019, the Strategy defines 3 interconnected priorities on Resilience, Prosperity and Regional Cooperation and has specific objectives on "Enhancing Environmental, Climate and Water Resilience". The activities of the EU-CA WGECC will take advantage of this renewed and strengthened framework, to move forward a sound EU-CA policy dialogue. This 9th meeting of the EU-CA WGECC will present the general framework and focus mainly on Circular Economy for Sustainable Development. The objectives of the 9th meeting of the WGECC are to: • Present the priorities of the new EU Strategy on Central Asia; • Present the framework of priorities of the Platform on Environment and Water Cooperation and the activities of its WGECC; • Take stock of policy developments at regional and bilateral level and provide update on progress in EU-CA regional cooperation in the areas of environment and climate change since the 6th EU-CA High Level Conference on Environment and Water Cooperation; • Outline emerging environmental issues from the CA and EU perspectives; • Introduce recent developments in EU climate and environmental policies, particularly focusing on the European Green Deal and the upcoming new EU Circular Economy Action Plan; • Finalise and adopt the new Terms of Reference of the WGECC and the Coordination Committee Rules of Procedure; • Discuss and adopt the Work Programme of the WGECC; • Present and discuss the outcomes of the WECOOP2 project including the concrete activities carried out through the tailor-made support; • Introduce the new phase of WECOOP and discuss its work plan. BACKGROUND The Platform for Environment and Water Cooperation was established at the EU-CA High Level Conference in Rome (Italy) in 2009. The Platform is a framework for the implementation of the EU-CA Cooperation in water and environment, based on the EU Strategy for Central Asia agreed with the CA countries. The priorities for the Platform were first agreed at the third EU-Central Asia High-Level Conference in Rome in 2009 and subsequently confirmed at the High-Level Conferences in Bishkek (2013), Milan (2015), and Tashkent (2019). 1 The EU-CA WGECC assists in the identification of EU-CA regional cooperation priorities in environment and climate change and supports the Platform by strengthening policy dialogue and cooperation at the regional level and between EU and CA. Eight WGECC meetings took place since 2010. The Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea has been chairing the Working Group since its establishment in 2009. New draft Terms of Reference have been introduced and discussed at the 6th EU-CA High Level Conference in January 2019, but the final adoption of this document was left for the up-coming 9th meeting of the WGECC. The EU renewed the project “European Union – Central Asia Water, Environment and Climate Change Cooperation” (WECOOP) in October 2019. It is the third phase of the project that will run for three years. The project aims to enhance environment, climate change and water policies at national levels in Central Asia through approximation to EU standards and to promote investments in relevant sectors with the aim of contributing to measurable reductions in man-made pollution, including CO2 emission. The project activities include support to the Platform and the WGECC. WECOOP supports the development, effectiveness and visibility of the Platform through regular high-level meetings and joint expert working groups or other ad-hoc events. The project team functions as the technical secretariat of the Platform and the WGECC and is responsible for practical organisation of the meetings. Day 1: Wednesday, 12 February 2020 14:00 – 14:30 Registration of participants Opening of the meeting: Meeting Chair: Mr Giovanni Brunelli, Director of Division, Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, Italy Welcome addresses: • H. E. Chingiz Aidarbekov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic 14:30 – 15:15 • H.E. Peter Burian, EU Special Representative for Central Asia • Ms Astrid Schomaker, Director, Global Sustainable Development, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission • Ms Elina Bardram, Head of Unit, International Relations, Directorate-General for Climate Action, European Commission • Mr Olzhas Agabekov, Director, Climate Policy and Green Technologies Department, Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan Adoption of the agenda and presentation of the policy framework Mr Giovanni Brunelli, Director of Division, Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, Italy • Priorities of “The EU and Central Asia: New Opportunities for a Stronger Partnership” launched 15:15 – 15:30 in 2019 (Mr Boris Iarochevitch, Head of the Central Asia Division, EEAS) • Framework of priorities of the Platform for Environment and Water Cooperation and the activities of its WGECC (Mr Johannes Stenbaek Madsen, Head of Cooperation, EU Delegation to Kazakhstan); Session 1: Taking stock – Update on progress since the 6th EU-CA High Level Conference and perspectives of future developments Chair: Mr Davor Percan, Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission Overview of the recent EU policy developments on environment and international priorities • 5 min presentation by Mr Andrzej Januszewski, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission 15:30 – 16:15 Overview of the recent EU policy developments on climate action and international priorities • 5 min presentation by Ms Stine Rasmussen, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Climate Action, European Commission • 5 min presentation by Ms Monika Zsigri, Policy Officer – Team Leader, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission 2 Overview of the recent policy developments in the CA region • UNECE Environmental Performance Reviews in the countries of Central Asia – 8 min presentation by Mr Antoine Nunes, Environmental Performance Review Programme Manager, UNECE + 5 min feedback from recently reviewed Uzbekistan (2019) (Mr Tolegen Abdulgaziev, Head, Administration of Environmental Pollution Coordination and Monitoring, State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan) • EUWI National Policy Dialogues on Integrated Water Resources Management and Water Supply and Sanitation: 8 min presentation by Mr Alisher Mamadzhanov, EUWI NPDs Regional Coordinator, UNECE Q&A 16:15 – 16:45 Coffee and group photo of the participants Delegations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are invited to inform on recent and future developments in the areas of environmental governance, including solid waste management, and climate change mitigation and adaptation • 5 min presentation by Mr Olzhas Agabekov, Director, Climate Policy and Green Technologies Department, Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan • 5 min presentation by Ms Aizada Kiiazova, Lead Specialist, Ecological Strategy and Policy Department, State Agency on Environment Protection and Forestry of the Kyrgyz Republic • 5 min presentation by Mr Mahmad Safarov, Deputy Director, Agency of Hydrometeorology, 16:45 – 18:15 Committee for Environment Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan • 5 min presentation by Mr Magtymguly Akmyradov, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan • 5 min presentation by Mr Tolegen Abdulgaziev, Head, Administration of Environmental Pollution Coordination and Monitoring, State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan • 5 min presentation by Mr Ysmail Dairov, Executive Director, Regional Mountain Centre of Central Asia • 5 min presentation by Mr Arslan Berdiyev, NGO “Yashyl Shohle”, Turkmenistan Open discussions and Q&A 19:30 – 22:00 Gala dinner at Steigenberger Wiltcher’s Day 2: Thursday, 13 February 2020 Session 2: Enhancing CA policies – recent developments in environmental policies and available tools to support environment, climate change and water policies in the CA region Chair: Mr Johannes Stenbaek Madsen, Head of Cooperation, EU Delegation to Kazakhstan EU action on circular economy • 10 min presentation by Mr Luca Perez, Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission A Europe that protects: Clean air for all 09:00-10:30 • 10 min presentation by Ms Susanne Lindahl, Expert, “Clean Air” Unit, Directorate-General
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